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Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­x, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland’s massive open online course (MOOC) provider, has surpassed Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­’s yearly on-campus enrolment, luring 300,000 new students from around the world.

Two Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­x courses, THINK101x The Science of Everyday Thinking (with more than 127,000 students) and WRITE101x English Grammar and Style have had larger enrolments than Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­’s entire on-campus cohort.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­x Director John Zornig said the global demand for quality learning was growing, as was the diversity of offerings.

“Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­x strives to reflect the breadth of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ as a leading research and teaching university through our catalogue of courses, and we are pleased at the response from the global learner community,” Mr Zornig said.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­x has in the two years since Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ joined the .

The largest number of students have hailed from the United States, India and Australia.

“New courses and re-runs of popular courses will ensure that MOOC learners have a choice of engaging Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­x courses year round,” Mr Zornig said.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland is a charter member of , one of the world’s leading providers of MOOCs.

edX was founded by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2012 and offers free online education using cutting-edge technologies, innovative pedagogy and rigorous courses.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­x is producing exciting new MOOCs, including , and , to be released in November 2015.

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Media: Catherine Bennett, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­x Course Project Manager, +61 7 3346 0850 or enquiries@uqx.uq.edu.au.